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Thursday, 29 September 2011

OLPC (One Laptop computer Per Child) founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte showed us a glimpse with the long term of this concept style recognized as XO-3 which is scheduled to become launched in 2012. It is a 3rd installment towards the sequence of XO’s released through the non revenue organization. The cost for this paper skinny computer? An ultra inexpensive price of $75! well, I just do hope they attain their cost objective this time.

The Garmin Vector is really a light-weight energy meter that’s integrated on a pedal. Not only it could offer accurate and reliable energy data, however it also measures the power stability of the cyclist’s correct and left legs. The data will be sent towards the Garmin Edge GPS or other suitable wireless receivers (so long as it is Garmin-made).

The Vector is portable, easy to make use of, and requires only minutes to set up. It’s a shame, however, that this gadget has a suggested price of $1,499. Garmin Vector is predicted to become available in March 2012.

A flashlight is something that can display the route forward and guide you along the way. But a regular flashlight has 1 problem. It throws rays of mild right in front of you in the path that you are strolling but doesn’t help you see exactly where you’re stepping. You may possess the street ahead lit up well for you but may nonetheless be most likely to stumble on something.

An easy and convenient way to walk in the dark has been found out by designer Junwon Yang. The Emergency Flashlight designed by Yang will show to be your best companion within the dark. It is no normal flashlight because it has the capability to light up the route prior to you also because the spot you are walking on. This two-way torch has lighting components on each stops which makes it various from all other sorts of torches.

Yang, like all of us, knows the problems that one needs to face when treading within the dark and the hazards it poses. Hazards can be each in the form of dangerous creatures and the issues lying on the way. To counter the risk of stumbling on objects he designed this Emergency Flashlight that will mild up both necessary areas. The mild supply in the back with the torch is angled at 45 degrees, an angle at which the light directly falls on every step you take. This provides you two fields of vision within the otherwise pitch black region.

It has been quite hot news that the global warming is going to take the charge of entire civilization and hence we need to take care of our mother earth as much as possible. The first step towards this comes in the form of using eco friendly and energy efficient gadgets like the latest and sensational compact ecopod. This very own device is specially built for the energy efficient andeco friendlywashing and drying of the clothes. This device functions n the rules of damp and hot steam.

The technology on which this eco friendly washer and dryer is built is found to be very much advanced. The damp steam is used for washing purpose and the hot steam is directed for the drying part. The best feature of this devise is that it does not need a lot of attention and hence in is pretty good in today’s fast life. The function of ecopod is operated with the help of three major keys. The keys are good to use and easy to understand when it comes to the functional aspect of this compact ecopod.

There are various other features that can be enjoyed with this ecopod. Its time saving and energy efficient nature is pretty useful for all the people. Above all it is very cost effective as well. to conclude all we can say that the world has started moving towards the green lifestyle and the products like this eco friendly washer and dryer are proving to be the foundation stones.

Philips has introduce new GoGear Muse 3 their new Personal Music Player. The new GoGear Muse 3 sports smoother lines compared to previous model with rounded corners and a 3.2 touchscreen.

This new edition from the GoGear Muse now also includes a brand new equalizer known as the SoundPersonalisation, which enables you to regulate the sound of audio by just transferring your finger around the display in the unit with every single corner representing a sound enhancement: Powerful, Sparkling, Vocal and Warm.

The new GoGear Muse 3 comes supplied with noise isolation in-ear headphones, is fitted with an internal speaker and is available in two storage capacities of 8GB for £110 and 16GB for around £140.

E-Ball PC is ball like idea computer which by the way will be the smallest pc ever designed. It essentially has all of the functions of the traditional computer technologies less the dimension and excess weight. Created to sit on two stands which can be deployed by concurrently pressing two buttons on each aspect. This idea gadget doesn’t only possess a detachable mouse attached to its physique when not in use however it also sports activities a laser keyboard, a cool addition to its features. Images and show is projected to a wall or perhaps a sheet paper with a press of a button.

With a consumer pleasant interface along with a sylized icons that can be wasily remembered this cool idea gadget is perfect for generating video clip presentations, watching big screen films, chatting around the internet and listening to your preferred songs. It’ll certainly be an eye catcher within the workplace.

Sony added their MP3 Players with release Sony Walkman B Series. The Sony Walkman B Series MP3 gamers are available in a array of diverse colors, and you get a option of possibly a 2GB design which can be enough for about 470 songs or perhaps a 4GB model which is enough for about 980 songs.

The Sony Walkman B series features a battery everyday living of about 18 hours, and it supports a choice of formats like MP3 and WMA. These new MP3 gamers from Sony will go on sale in June 2011, you will discover no details on pricing as but.

Martin Jetpack will lastly be made available for public purchase. It originally debuted back again in 2008 and save for some small tweaks and adjustments, its design has remained exactly the same.

In order to allow it to be publicly obtainable, Glenn Martin’s jetpack had to become tailored about the FAA’s ultralight requirements, which imply that its speed was limited to a maximum of 63mph and its maximum flight time limited to a mere thirty minutes. The good news is that due to it becoming within the ultralight class, should you decide to get your hands around the jetpack, you will not be needed to possess a license of any type.

For those that forgot, the Martin jetpack is powered by a two-stroke, custom-designed gasoline engine spins a pair of ducted followers that generate thrust, and an completely electronic, fly-by-wire program, which changed the original cable-and-pulley steering system. A cellphone-sized flight-control unit (generally utilized in Predator UAVs) allows the jetpack to set bounds on pitch, roll and yaw, and in common assists to steady the flights.

Introducing the Nintendo3DS system. The incredible gameplay experience with real 3D graphics do not need special glasses. Nintendo 3DS is a breakthrough in portable entertainment, very high quality piece of hardware. It must be seen to be believed.

Nintendo 3DS system opens up a whole new world of gaming options eye-popping. The 3D stereoscopic view of the top screen for objects in the game world a sense of space and depth that extends far to the rear of the screen. It becomes easier to see the placement of characters and barriers in the world, making the gaming experience much more intuitive for all types of players.

Monday, 26 September 2011

United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) has reached a $16.5 billion cash deal to acquire aircraft components maker Goodrich Corp (GR.N), in what would be the diversified U.S. manufacturer's biggest deal in a decade.

United Tech said on Wednesday it would pay $127.50 a share for Goodrich, a 47 percent premium over the stock's closing price last Thursday. It also includes $1.9 billion in assumed debt.

The deal comes as blue-chip United Tech looks to cash in on the upswing in plane orders and production as declining global spending on defense pressures its military business.

The acquisition can help it build critical mass in new aircraft technology and plane services as civil demand rebounds.

Goodrich is poised to grow as key commercial plane programs such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and upcoming Airbus A320neo ramp up production.

"It's a good deal," said Virginia-based defense consultant Jim McAleese.

"This is definitely a step forward in the growth of United Technologies in commercial aerospace, and it reduces the company's exposure to defense," he said.

BUCKS M&A SLOWDOWN

The deal comes despite a broad slowdown in merger activity globally, as market volatility and economic uncertainty give many firms a pause.

But it shows large, well-capitalized companies are still willing to take on strategic transactions and financing remains available for companies with good credit.

Within the sector, the deal could also be a harbinger of more M&A as companies look to reduce their dependence on defense amid declining global spending.

The deal is a big move for United Tech Chief Executive Louis Chenevert, who had long said he was interested in doing more deals but was having a hard time coming to terms with targets on price.

"Goodrich delivers on all of our acquisition criteria. It is strategic to our core, has great technology and people, and strengthens our position in growth markets," said Chenevert, who ran the Pratt & Whitney unit before taking on the top job.

The deal is United Tech's largest since its year 2000 showdown with General Electric Co (GE.N) over Honeywell International Inc (HON.N). United Tech made a $36 billion offer for Honeywell, which GE topped. European regulators ultimately scuttled that deal.

Goodrich CEO Marshall Larsen, a 34-year Goodrich veteran, will run the new UTC Aerospace Systems unit, which will be based in Goodrich's current home town of Charlotte, North Carolina.

United Tech plans to sell $4.2 billion in stock and suspend share repurchases through next year to maintain its credit rating, according to the Wall Street Journal, which said JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) is leading a $15 billion loan package for the deal, with HSBC Holdings (HSBA.L) and Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) also involved in the financing.

United Tech shares have risen some 8 percent over the past year, outpacing the 6 percent rise of the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI. Goodrich is up 52 percent, with more than half of that run coming over the past week.

Boeing's long-awaited dream machine became a commercial reality on Sunday when the lightweight plastic-composites 787 Dreamliner was formally delivered to its first Japanese customer.

Boeing says the revolutionary carbon fiber design will hand 20 percent fuel savings to airlines struggling to avoid a new recession, and give passengers a more comfortable ride with better cabin air and large electronically dimmable windows.

The first $200 million aircraft was handed over to Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways three years behind schedule after persistent delays that cost Boeing billions of dollars.

"It took a lot of hard work to get to this day," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 program, at the outset of two days of celebrations at the plane's Seattle production plant.

The blue and white-painted long-range aircraft, which boasts a graceful new design with raked wingtips, will leave for Japan on Tuesday and enter service domestically on October 26.

Boeing has taken orders for 821 Dreamliners, which will compete with the future Airbus A350, due in 2013.

The much-anticipated handover came a week after another major first delivery -- the 747-8 Freighter -- was abruptly postponed in a contract dispute with the customer. ANA, the world's ninth largest airline by revenues, plans to coax the airplane into service on domestic routes before putting it on longer international routes like Frankfurt, Germany.

The aircraft goes 52 percent further than the all-metal Boeing 767 which it is designed to replace while using 20 percent less fuel for the distance flown, an ANA executive said.

In a classic roll of the dice in the high-stakes aerospace industry, Boeing abandoned plans for a sound barrier-chasing "Sonic Cruiser" a decade ago and worked on lighter long-range jets as cash-starved airlines valued efficiency over speed.

The resulting composites-based technology proved popular with airlines, forcing Airbus to turn its back on the aluminum airframe for its next generation of jets. Boeing expects this to become the standard for future passenger planes.

"Technology will only get more efficient and lighter," said the 787 program's chief project engineer Mike Sinnett.

BUYER CONFIDENT ON RAMP-UP

The plane's lighter weight allows airlines to operate routes even when the demand is insufficient for larger aircraft like the Boeing 777 or 747, or the Airbus 380 superjumbo.

"For aviation we believe this is as important as the 707 was with the introduction of the jet age," Fancher said.

He moved to head off any fears over the new materials, stressing tough composites were nothing like ordinary plastic.

"Plastic is what you have on the dashboard of your car. This is not plastic," he told reporters.

The 787 development program has been delayed seven times due to challenges with engineering, supply chain glitches and a 58-day labor strike in 2008. [ID:nS1E78O09V]

"We have been waiting for the 787 for over 3 years as we expected it in the summer of 2008," said senior vice president Satoru Fujiki who took part in negotiations to buy the 787.

"I can't say the delayed delivery didn't have any impact but ANA and Boeing worked closely to mitigate it," he said, adding Boeing had provided alternative jets to meet the shortfall.

ANA has ordered a total of 55 Dreamliners worth $11 billion at current list prices, including 40 of the 260-passenger 787-8 variant being delivered this week. #

ANA plans to take delivery of 4 planes in 2011 and an additional 8 next year. "By the end of 2017 we will get all our 787's so it is catching up on all our deliveries."

The Seattle Times reported on Sunday that 787 program costs had topped $32 billion due to delays. That estimate raised questions, the newspaper said, over whether the new jet would make money for Boeing before "well into the 2020s, if ever."

Boeing declined comment.

Analysts say new jets typically cost closer to $15 billion.

Boeing also faces Wall Street concerns over its ability to reach its target of lifting output to 10 planes a month by 2013.

"Boeing still has to achieve a smooth production ramp-up and still has to do rework on some 40 airplanes that it says will take years to complete," aerospace analyst Scott Hamilton said.

Asked how confident he was that Boeing would stick to its latest output goals, ANA's Fujiki said: "We are quite confident in Boeing's ability to deliver on schedule this time."

Also uncertain is how many planes Boeing must sell to break even, something the company is not yet saying.

"If it is 1,200, they should make money; if it is larger than that it could be challenging," Hamilton said.

The delivery comes as Boeing remains locked in a dispute with one of its top labor unions in Washington state, where it has traditionally built its aircraft.

The International Association of Machinists and the National Labor Relations Board accuse Boeing of building a non-union 787 plant in South Carolina to punish the IAM for past strikes.

Boeing denies that claim, saying the jobs in South Carolina represent new employment, not the relocation of existing work. The issue has become a political lightning rod, with Republicans denouncing the Democratically controlled NLRB as being unfriendly to U.S. companies.

- A six-ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a ton of space debris may have landed.

The U.S. space agency said it believes the debris ended up in the Pacific Ocean, but the precise time of the bus-sized satellite's re-entry and the location of its debris field have not been determined.

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, ended 20 years in orbit with a suicidal plunge into the atmosphere sometime between 11:23 p.m. on Friday and 1:09 a.m. EDT on Saturday (0323 to 0509 GMT Saturday), NASA said.

The satellite would have been torn apart during the fiery re-entry, but about 26 pieces, the largest of which was estimated to have weighed 330 pounds (150 kg), likely survived the fall, officials said.

As it fell to Earth, UARS passed from the east coast of Africa over the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean, across northern Canada and the northern Atlantic Ocean to a point over West Africa. Most of the transit was over water, with some flight over northern Canada and West Africa, NASA said.

"Because we don't know where the re-entry point actually was, we don't know where the debris field might be," said Nicholas Johnson, chief orbital debris scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We may never know."

Stretching 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, UARS was among the largest spacecraft to plummet uncontrollably through the atmosphere, although it is a slim cousin to NASA's 75-tonne (68,000 kilogram) Skylab station, which crashed to Earth in 1979.

Russia's last space station, the 135-tonne (122,000 kilogram) Mir, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2001, but it was a guided descent.

NASA now plans for the controlled re-entry of large spacecraft, but it did not when UARS was designed.

The 13,000-pound (5,897 kg) satellite was dispatched into orbit by a space shuttle crew in 1991 to study ozone and other chemicals in Earth's atmosphere.

It completed its mission in 2005 and has been slowly losing altitude ever since.

With most of the planet covered in water and vast uninhabited deserts and other land directly beneath the satellite's flight path, the chance that someone would be hit by falling debris was 1-in-3,200, NASA said.

"The risk to public safety is very remote," it said.

The satellite flew over most of the planet, traveling between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south of the equator.

UARS was one of about 20,000 pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth. Something the size of UARS falls back into the atmosphere about once a year.

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Long-delayed U.S. Internet rules that tackle the controversial issue of balancing consumer and content provider interests against those who sell access to the Web will take effect November 20.

The Federal Communications Commission's "open Internet" order was published in the Federal Register on Friday, and immediately drew threats of court and congressional challenges.

The rules were adopted by the FCC late last year after a lengthy debate, but only recently cleared a review by the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

Criticized by opponents as a legally shaky government intrusion into regulating the Internet, the new rules forbid broadband providers from blocking legal content but leave flexibility for providers to manage their networks.

Broadband provider Verizon Communications Inc has been a vociferous opponent, and renewed its pledge to take the FCC to court as soon as the rules are published.

"We have said all along that once we see the publication ... we intend to file another notice of appeal," Verizon spokesman Ed McFadden said.

For the past 10 years, the possibility of regulations to mandate the neutrality of the Internet -- in terms of restrictions on content, sites, platforms and types of equipment that may be attached -- has been the subject of fierce debate.

The latest rulemaking was prompted by a U.S. federal appeals court ruling last year that the FCC lacked the authority to stop Comcast Corp from blocking bandwidth-hogging applications on its broadband network.

The rules, adopted last December in a 3-2 vote, give the FCC power to ensure consumer access to huge movie files and other content while allowing Internet service providers to manage their networks to prevent congestion.

An FCC spokesman said the rules increase certainty and predictability, stimulating investment and ensuring job creation and economic growth.

But public interest groups criticized the rules as too weak, saying the FCC bent heavily to the will of big industry players including AT&T Inc and Comcast.

Matt Wood, policy director of public interest group Free Press, said broadband providers will be able to divide the Internet into "fast and slow lanes" and that the rules fail to protect mobile broadband users.

"Even in their watered-down form, the rules might do some good -- but that would require a vigilant FCC to carefully monitor and address complaints," Wood said in a statement, adding that he doubted the agency would do enough to protect consumers.

While some public interest groups had considered a lawsuit to strengthen the rules, they now seem focused on ensuring the rules stay in place.

"We are prepared to vigorously defend the FCC's rules in court and in Congress," said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge. She said the rules are a good start despite not being as strong as she had hoped.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in April threw out earlier challenges to the FCC's open Internet order by Verizon and MetroPCS Communications Inc, dismissing their lawsuits as premature.

FCC rulemakings generally cannot be challenged until the rules are published in the Federal Register.

Top Republican lawmakers vowed after the rules were adopted to find a way to reverse what they called an unprecedented power grab by the FCC, calling the rules unnecessary and misguided.

"In order to turn back the FCC's onerous net neutrality restrictions, I will push for a Senate vote this fall on my resolution of disapproval," Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, said in a statement on Friday.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives pushed through a measure in April to overturn the order and prevent the FCC from adopting any rules related to it. The effort faces a tougher climb in the Senate, where Democrats retain a majority.

The White House has said President Barack Obama's advisers would recommend he veto any such resolution against the Internet rules if it were to make it to his desk.

Friday, 23 September 2011

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Today Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 8 at the Anaheim Convention Center and the Microsoft’s Build conference. This conference will run till end of this week. Microsoft previewd its upcoming operating system in the event to around 5000 developers. They have demostrated the changes that Windows 8 will bring in the way people will use their Windows computers.

Here is the gallery to see how Windows 8 Metro UI looks like.

Windows 8 Lock Screen

Windows 8 Start Screen

Windows 8 Files

Windows 8 Internet Explorer

Windows 8 Touch Keyboard

Laptops Running Windows 8

Windows 8 In App Mail

Windows 8 Photo Feeder

Windows 8 Photos

Windows 8 Refresh Your PC

Windows 8 Running on Samsung Tablet

Windows 8 Start Screen on Samsung Tablet

Windows 8 Start Screen With Apps

Windows 8 Super Thin Computers

Windows 8 Task Manager

Windows 8 Thin Computers

This is a incredible step from Microsoft. Windows 8 supports amazing range of hardware and it runs faster than ever before. Stay tuned for detailed post on all Windows 8 features.